{"id":658877,"date":"2026-04-02T14:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658877\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:05:06","slug":"county-officials-take-another-step-in-rays-stadium-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658877\/","title":{"rendered":"County officials take another step in Rays&#8217; stadium proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0 The Hillsborough County Commission will soon schedule a workshop to talk about possible finances ideas for a proposed Tampa Bay Rays stadium at Hillsborough College&#8217;s Dale Mabry campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>County Attorney Julia Mandell decided Wednesday that all the notes, drafts and proposals generate so far by county staff were not public record.<\/p>\n<p>So they don&#8217;t have to release them to the public.<\/p>\n<p>County commissioners, as well as city council members, could take a vote on the\u00a0proposed $2.3 billion Tampa Bay Rays stadium deal in mid-April 2026, with meetings tentatively set for April 15 and 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team is envisioning a mixed-used entertainment district that would include a domed stadium that can seat about 31,000 people. The entire development would stretch about 130 acres across the campus.<\/p>\n<p>The college campus is located across from Raymond James Stadium. Rays officials have said they would like to be in the new facility in time for the 2029 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0 The Hillsborough County Commission will soon schedule a workshop to talk about possible finances ideas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[560,5,255,19859,19124,4,169,297,10202,562,295,2550,68,2551,2549,558],"class_list":{"0":"post-658877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-hillsborough-county","12":"tag-local-politics","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-rays","16":"tag-rays-stadium","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-tampa","19":"tag-tampa-bay","20":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","21":"tag-tampabay","22":"tag-tampabayrays","23":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116335501852667998","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}